The Government has been ordered to drop two adverts based on nursery rhymes which exaggerated the risks of so-called 'global warming'.

...the Advertising Standards Agency said they amounted to scaremongering and didn't reflect the growing scepticism over claims that the planet is heating up.

Of course, that's only half the story. The ASA investigated five ads and cleared three of them. Generally, it did not find the ads in breach on truthfulness, substantiation or environmental claims. The ASA also ruled the ads did not breach their clauses on 'distress' so they didn't actually say they 'amounted to scaremongering'.

Littlejohn then repeats all his usual points:

Despite the fact that the world has actually got cooler this century, mounting evidence that 'climate change' is a myth, and the revelation that alleged 'experts' in the field have been fiddling the figures to fit their theories, the hysteria goes on.

It's an interesting use of the word 'fact'.

Littlejohn doesn't seem to have read the ASA judgment. Because it says:

The ASA understood that, amongst the majority of scientists who worked in the field of climate research globally, there was a consensus that human activity was contributing to upward temperature trends globally and would continue to do so unless steps were taken by the worlds' governments to reduce GHG emissions, including CO2.

We concluded that, at the time the ads were published, there was not a significant division of informed scientific opinion on the issue amongst the world's climate scientists.

It may just be that Littlejohn is not considered in the 'informed scientific opinion' category.

So, it's not quite as clear cut as Littlejohn tries to imply, if you can imagine such a thing. He doesn't even mention the three adverts that were cleared.

But the adverts updated nursery rhymes to make their point. So Littlejohn says:

It also got me wondering what other nursery rhymes could be updated ...

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown.

Trying escape the lynch mob who think he's a paedophile.

When they catch him they'll string him up, the dirty nonce.

And later this:

George Porgie, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry,

Now he's on the sexual offenders' register.

And on health we get this:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

So they took him to an NHS hospital, where he caught MRSA and died.

And this:

Three blind mice, three blind mice, See how they run, see how they run.

This ward's been crawling with mice since the NHS contracted out the cleaning.

Could that last line sound any more like he just isn't trying at all?

Of course, 'the foreigners' cop it too:

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester,

But when he got there

He found they'd already given the job to a foreign GP who can't speak English.

And:

As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives.

He said he'd come from Somalia,

And was now living on benefits in a £2.5 million townhouse in Kensington.

He runs through every one of his usual targets - Muslims, single mums, gay men, CSOs, equality, diversity - and fails to come up with a single new or interesting thing to say about any of them. He even references the foot-and-mouth outbreak which happened either three or nine years ago, depending on how generous you feel.

Macguffin, you give Littlejohn and the Mail far too much credit above. I can confirm having flicked through a dead tree copy of the Mail that Littlejohn's column adds nothing more. Indeed almost the entire page is taken up with the massive, hilarious 'Hey diddle diddle' book cover.

He really is that lazy, so please amend the above to make sure everyone knows what an absolute joke he is.

The GW denialists such as Littledick make me laugh. No matter whether the climate is changing or not due to human influence they don't seem to look at the view that ridding the atmosphere of pollutants is A GOOD THING no matter. Given their view we'd still have deadly smog due to coal fires in the home FFS.

I think the average Daily Mail reader try's to deny global warming, because they enjoy having regular foreign hoidays, they prefer gas guzzling cars to having to use a bus or a train, they don't like recycling because it takes up so much time and is beneath them. So if they can convince themselves that GW doesn't exist they can continue go about their daily lives completely guilt free.

"Richard, wow. You are so funny. Amazing. Real 'nail on the head stuff'.

It is indeed a fact that all Somalians have six wives and live in a London mansion (I should know - I read it here).

That stuff about global warming??? Global yawning more like. LOLLZZ. I used to believe that stuff that came from all that research ya know. Boy, dont I look stupid now. I wish that you could have confirmed all that stuff to me earlier. Littlejohn has spoken? Case closed in my book.

You're absolutely right about the NHS too. Everyone who goes into an NHS hospital dies don't they? I heard it's statistically more dangerous to be a patient in a NHS hospital than it is to be one of our brave boys serving on the front line in Iraq.

Wow. You're amazing.

I relly like your chin too.

Nonses eh? String em up. Why should honest taxpayers like me fund their legal costs when we can 'lynch' em like you said.

Those "rhymes" remind me so much of the wonderful Pinter piss-takes Private Eye's marvellous Craig Brown did occasionally ("Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow / Then Blair and Bush invaded Iraq and blew her and her lamb into fucking bits" or words to that effect). Except, y'know, not funny.

...hmmm, nice to see Littlejohn is as original as ever. I mean, I can't think where I have seen that non-rhyming political satire nursery rhymes before: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/a-child%27s-guide-to-modern-britain-201003172568/